I'm new to SSRS and I need the ability to group multiple reports into a single report. I've searched around a lot but not found much. I currently have two reports (more to come) that users need to be able to view/save individually. The users also need the option to view both those reports as a single report. Essentially just a simple concatenation. Eventually, there will be several reports grouped and the user will be able to render all of them for viewing online or saving as a single PDF.
I tried two sub-reports in a master report but it causes a lot of hard to diagnose page-break problems. I was wondering if there was a more straight forward option here. Thanks.
Combining all the report elements into one report would work, but the users also need to be able to view them as individual reports as well. To avoid having to maintain both an master report and multiple individual reports, you have a couple of options:
Create a master report and insert the individual reports as sub-reports. If you get page break issues, check the report page height and widths versus the subreport container height and width.
(If you have SQL Server 2008 R2 or later) Consider publishing your individual reports as a set of Report Parts. You can then reuse these in a master report.
I'm not a fan of subreports either, they work well in Crystal but are not really necessary in reporting services.
Why don't you just combine the reports into one? Copy all the tablixes / other objects from each report onto a new report. You can select all and copy and paste very easily, you just need to set up the parameters, datasets and data sources if they aren't shared.
You can set pagebreaks to occur after each tablix or a good trick is to use rectangles because they will let you control page breaks in their properties.
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I have many reports which use a set of the same report variables:
Is there any possibility not to insert them each time manually when creating a new report? Or may be there is a possibility to share these variables between reports as , for instance, DataSources?
Can be used for this purpose assemblies?
Based on your question it's seems you're looking for a subreport. Sub Report is a tool available in the toolbox in SSRS. It allows you to create a report that can in included in all your other reports without have to rebuild the structure.
Once you've created your report in the sub report properties just specify the report and include the parameters used for the report (if any) see below:
If that's not what you looking for, then maybe it's shared data sets you're looking for.
Let me know if it's something completely different and I may be able to provide alternative solutions.
Thanks
Gav
I am working with SSRS 2008 or 2014 and SQL Server 2014. One of the issues the team is having is around the formatting of the SSRS report. The goal is to have the report data format to render in an user friendly format. Unfortunately, a requirement is that the report uses two tables that can display 1:x number of records. As you can imagine, all data fields under the tables will now be pushed further down the page.
My question is, has anyone encountered this type of scenario and have an SSRS code-based solution to handle the formatting of the report?
It sounds like you need to display a 1 to many relationship in the report but want to keep the first table's results together. Maybe what you need is a drilldown/drillthrough report; this is available without a code-based solution.
This article explains the concept
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-design/drilldown-action-report-builder-and-ssrs?view=sql-server-2014
There are many Youtube videos on how to set up drilldown reports, here is one example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C56fMnp4oaA
I have a customized report sitemap for SSRS (which is a report itself) and currently put custom options in the report description. I then use those options in the sitemap to filter reports accordingly.
I was wondering if I could add columns to the ReportServer.dbo.Catalog table?
Or is there a way to add custom properties to the report settings (as in picture)?
Altering the Catalog table in the SSRS database would more than likely break SSRS. At a minimum, it would stop you from being able to upgrade to another version in the future without a whole lot of pain.
If you really need to add custom properties to the report catalog, host your reports in SharePoint. That way, you can add additional fields to the report list it creates all day long, and you won't break a thing.
I have done this, it's nice. I have added a new field to hold the technical description of the report, leaving the canned description field for the business description. With SharePoint, you can all sorts of additional fields, for all types of data. If you know anything about the SharePoint database, you can query that too to pull the addition data into whatever you need.
This may not be the answer you want since the move to SharePoint may not be an option for you, but it is a viable option none the less.
Working with Reporting Services 2008 r2.
So here's my issue:
We have 5 reports that need to be combined into an "All Reports" report, which was originally done using VB6.
I created a master report with 5 subreports, and of course, it doesn't work.
I need to get certain reports to render as landscape, and others as portrait. Also, I want to get the headers and footers from each of the subreports.
I know that SSRS doesn't support either of these, but is there a way to "pre-render" the subreports as PDF, and then combine them into one PDF via reporting services?
This cannot be done out of the box. The only way you're going to accomplish this is through custom code. There are tools out there that you can build/buy to merge your PDFs into a single document. I can't comment on which tool is the best approach, but I can tell you custom code is the only approach.
I've been thinking of the best way to present reports to the end user. We've accumulated several dozen reports. Some are subscription-based and are exported into Excel or emailed out regularly but a large number are run on-demand.
There's the option of sending the users the direct link to the reports. We don't do this because it's not easy to find (they have to dig through emails or bookmark the link)
http://server/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?myreportrs:Command=Render
We've been embedding reports in sharepoint (or simply adding a link to the report). We're not using Sharepoint Integrated Mode. This has become a little unorganized where we have a large number of links to reports. I'm not sure what other solution exists..
SQL 2008, Sharepoint 2007
Depends on how much maintenance effort and instruction you want to provide. Some likely options include:
Use a SharePoint content page and hardcode a page with links to different reports.
Create a Sharepoint URL list linking to the different reports.
Create an SSRS report that is acts as a central index. This could either be a static page (a report without any data
source, just many static text boxes.) or a dynamic list of reports.
Depending on requirements you could query the SSRS databases and
use that as a central list.
My clients have generally found that a one of these, the Report Manager interface (/reports/), and emailing of specific report urls to be adequate.
Another option I once used: we created a formula (happened to be in Excel) that would create a url with the appropriate custom parameters to return just the data the user was interested in. Passed the parameters to SSRS as part of the URL. (Search on SSRS URL access.)